Hello,
When did your mum come out of hospital , you said she broke her hip. Can she walk ,could she walk when she came out of hospital.
Before she came out of hospital a care package should have been done for mum.So not sending her home with a care package is a failed discharge. But if she is going round tell people that she does not need any help that you will do it all I donāt know how you will go on .but she should not be doing this. You need to tell her not to do because you cannot do it all. I would ring the doctors tell them that your mum has come out of hospital with no care package because she keeps telling people she doesnāt need help ,say to them she does need help you cannot do it.you need an urgent reablement package for home.
Long story 2024 I broke 6 bones .i spent 4 months in hospital .when I came home I could not walk at all . The hospital sorted out everything .i had 4 carers 4 times a day. I had a key safe fitted ,and I had a telecare pendant so if I needed help falling etc.i could press it. now this is called reablement 6 weeks free care. Now I have found out lots during the past 12 months . I will tell you what Iāve found out. Reablement is not necessarily 6 weeks it can be longer .it is classed as short term . But itās for as long as it takes the person to be how they were before they had the accident. now donāt fill a financial form in and donāt tell them how much money she has . You ring the doctors you get the reablement and you donāt pay or fill financial form in. If she is still the same after 6 weeks and cannot do things due to her accident. It depends how she is health wise because I donāt know . You could ask for a continued care assessement based on your mums health needs due to her physical accident . Because if she is not able to do things after the 6 weeks that is because of her accident.
I am going through it all at the moment. Continued health care is supposed to follow on from after the 6 weeks reablement or they give her longer reablement. When social workers come and they are on about financial assessment and how much money you have you donāt tell them ,if they know you have money they will try and force you to pay. You ask for the 6 weeks reablement package free. after about four weeks see how your mum is . If she is still bad cannot do things for herself cook, wash, clean , etc. this is due to an accident which is medical not social. They will ask you for all the financial things assessement .if still needs care you say no. I want a continued health care assessment for my mums health needs due to her physical health (use the words health and physical).if they say no or sheās not bad enough etc . And that you need to fill a financial form in or for a continued healthcare assessment no you donāt. All they want to know is how much money you have they donāt care about anything else at this time you donāt tell them .if they wonāt do one. Ring your local CAB up and tell them. They will write to the council for one. Now I have read that from the time you put in for a continued healthcare assessment ,you do the checklist and if she passes that.
Then she has an assessment and decision comes . If she gets it good , if not .the law state in the national framework of continued healthcare and nursing care that from the time itās put in for to The time of the final decision the NHS have a duty of care to pay the costs . Yet councils force people to pay if they fail, and yet the law states otherwise. Your mum is entitled to enablement 6 weeks care free. If she is still bad you say she needs longer reablement and she can have longer . I donāt know if she has other health related conditions.
People think continued healthcare is for end of life ,and itās not itās for people who have an illness ,disability or had an accident .so it is health related not social.it is all on the caretobedifferent.co.uk Website.all about reablement all about continued health care. All the national framework for continued health care and nursing care.read it all. The getting started all articles on discharge hospital etc.
Read the ones that apply to you. Anything a social worker tells you . Either research it or come on here and ask if it is true before you answer. Iāve not met one that hasnāt lied to me. But I never did what any of them said.because I knew they were lieing .they are all being reported.
you have to fight for everything Iāve learnt that the last 20 months. Read , get the info and then fight for it.
All the people hospital, social workers, benefits they have all been reported and are being investigated .At least a kind man at the hospital sorted out my care package for home ,my key safe, and my telecare .but since then itās been a battle. Iāve not been aloud to relax and recover .
Ring your local citizens advice number it will be on the internet type in Citizens advice bureau and where you live and ring them. Talk to them they will help.
Ring doctors tell them your mum needs reablement care package for home. Tell them she has told people at the hospital she doesnāt need any help and she does you cannot cope.tell them itās urgent.
Tell you mum to please not tell people she does not need any help, say to her itās obvious you do mum you have broke your hip.i cannot do it all.
Call a meeting of all your sisters to your mums house.tell them they all need to come.dont tell them why. Just say Iām calling a meeting .then when there all there say.we all need to help ,we all need to do things.i cannot do it all.you cannot leave everything to me or you will make me ill. Please can we sort things out between us . They would not like everything to be left to just one of them ,explain this to them . But call a meeting so you are all there together, not just on a phone . Maybe easier.
also the hospital she came out of you could look on the internet ,put in the hospital name and PALS. There will be a phone number for them .ring the pals at the hospital explain how your mum is that she broke her hip ,that she has been sent home with no home reablement package 6 weeks free care and that it is urgent ask them to help you .they should also sort it out. Iām sure I have read somewhere online .that when someone comes out of hospital say like you mum and they have had a bad accident and need help and care. Whoever is dealing with this .if your mum says to them I donāt need any help. My daughter is going to do it all.they are then supposed to come and ask you if you are going to do all the care for your mum. They should check what she is saying is true. Did anyone ask you ,how mum was going to be cared for at home without a care package. If they did not they should have done. They should then have sorted out a care package because you would have said no I cannot do it all. This is an unsafe discharge.if they have sent your mum home without a care package and not checking that she had care at home.
I live on my own .the hospital sorted out all my care package, my key safe so carers and nurses could get in , and a telecare monitor pendant . All these were sorted before I came home. I was asked about the things ,they gave me a choice of carer agency. Iām sure until all these things were put in place.and a hospital bed was delivered and put in my living room. I heard someone say I would not be released from the hospital. I didnāt like my bed downstairs in my living room at first but now .
I hope that you are ok. I donāt know if what I have wrote will help. Iām no expert but if I can help I will try. Sending love
Iām not an expert I just read a lot and been through a lot these past 20 months. I fell I broke 6 bones . 2 months before I fell ,I was ill also been ill along time the NHS made me ill , they closed ranks and left me to it. That will be my next battle after this. Before I fell my dad who was my best friend passed away ,he was all I had. So now itās just me. I have a sister but I have nothing to do with her a very bitter ,resentful, twisted person .who has put me through even more since dad passed away and has never done anything to help me only if she has wanted to.
Life is hard tooty you can try what Iāve said .Ring PALS. Read website and get the knowledge.i hope it helps.take care.
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